Muscat Holiday Hotel
PO Box 1185, Seeb Muscat, 00111, Oman
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Black Robes, Black Gold
... Koran is taught to men telling them how to treat their wife or wives. They can have up to four. But, for each wife you have you must provide a separate house, “so there is no fighting.”
“It is very expensive,” our taxi driver tells us. As a taxi driver, he says, he can afford only one wife. He has five children and will have more, Insha Allah (God Willing). He comes from a family of 12 children.
I am thinking of working up a treatment for ...
An epic blog for an epic country
... at all. Humid and 40 degrees, this was a whole new level of heat for me – when you hopped out of an air-conditioned car my glasses totally fogged up!
I reckon the Corniche would look much the same as it did back in seventies, but I could be wrong. I loved all the old, white merchant houses. There were no big, western hotels down here. In fact there were no tourists here at all. I cannot tell you how amazing it felt to be the only foreigner in a place – ...
Dubai to Salalah
... we have enjoyed lovely meals once again and of course laid in the sunshine and swam in the pool. Though we both did our route march this morning before breakfast, and we both went to the gym before having our pre-dinner drinks on our balcony. This allows us to feel righteous and enjoy eating the lovely dinner to come.
We have been keeping an eye out for pirates but no excitement on the horizon. We ...
Arabian Nights
... 8217;s personal yacht. A couple of Dhows were anchored nearby and looked like floating toothpicks.
As though to confirm the Sultan’s unpretentiousness, after our dhow cruise we were taken to his palace in Mutrah. It made the white house look like the housekeeper’s quarters. It was built in order for the Sultan to have a place for his honored guests, ...
Last Day
... about the Mosque, but asked us to sit down and (not looking at me) gave Wally a lecture on the Muslim religion. Luckily for me Wally was very good, and, although questioning him and telling him what he thought, he didn't put it quite so forcibly as he sometimes does when talking about politics!! The upshot was that he left with a copy of the Koran in English, a CD and 4 other booklets, one of which was entitled 'Woman in Islam', all for ...
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